Toy man-of-war.



No. 65l,235. ,Patented June 5, I900. M. E. CONVERSE.

TOY MAN OF WAR.

(Application filed Dec. 19, 1899.)

(No. Model.)

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MORTON E. CONVERSE, OF WINOI'IENDON, MASSACHUSETTS.

TOY MAN-OF-WAR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 651,235, dated J une 5, 1900.

Application filed December 19, 1899. Serial No. 740,878. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MORTON E. CONVERSE, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Winchendon, in the county of Worcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and Improved Toy M an-of-War, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

One object of the invention is to provide a toy which will represent a man-of-war with guns in position and to so construct the toy that the hull and turrets or mountings for the primary battery will be of metal, rendering the toy virtually an ironclad.

A further object of the invention is to offset the sponsons, ports, and guns of the secondary battery from the hull by embossing said parts, the guns of the primary battery being detachably mounted in the upper or deck structure.

Another object of the invention is to provide a wheeled support for the toy and to .so construct the hull that it will be hollow and open at the bottom, whereby all the parts mounted upon the hull (said parts being removable) may be packcd or stored away in the hull, together with said wheeled supports, thus enabling thetoy to be packed in a small compass and be shipped without danger of injury to its several parts.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth, and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the figures.

I Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improved toy, a portion of the hull being broken away. Fig. 2 is an enlarged transverse vertical section taken substantially on the line 2 2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a transverse vertical section taken practically on the line 3 3 of Fig. 1, and Fig. A is a longitudinal vertical section through the hull placed upside down and likewise asection through various of the parts packed in the hull.

The hull A is made of sheet metal and is given suitable form. Said hull is hollow, being open at the bottom and provided at its bottom with inwardly-extending horizontal marginal flanges 10, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and the top of the hull is closed by asuitable deck 11, usually made of Wood. Sponsons 12 and ports 13 areoffset or struck out from the hull, as are likewise representations of guns 14, mounted in said parts. At the bottom portion of the hull, below and at the water-line, the representation of waves 15 is struck out or offset from the material of the hull, as shown in Fig. 1, together with an anchor 16, the anchor-chain l7, and a hawsepipe 18, as is also shown in Fig. 1. The hull is adapted to be rolled along a surface, and to that end blocks 19' are provided, having horizontal slots 20 in their end portions, which slots are adapted to receive the flanges 10 of the hull, and the said blocks when in position on the hull are made to bear against cross-bars 19, as shown in Fig. 1, the blocks being best shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and at each end of each block a suitable wheel 21 is mounted in any approved manner. Thus it will be observed that the Wheel-supports for the hull may be readilyplaced in position by causing the flange at one side of the hull to enter one of the slots in the block 19 and then carrying the block to a position transversely of the hull, the opposing flange in the hull entering the opposite slot in the block. It is evident that these supports may be quickly and conveniently removed when desired.

A guide-block 22 is located longitudinally upon the deck 11, or the said guide 22 may be an integral portion of the deck. 7 This guide is adapted for frictional engagement at points in its length with a superstructure B, that is mounted on the deck, and this superstructure represents batteries or any approved mountings for guns. At proper intervals this superstructure or mounting for the guns is provided with apertures 1?, representing ports. The bottom of the superstructure B is preferably open; but it is closed at the top by a suitable roof 23, and smoke-stacks 25 have their reduced ends 24: passed through suitable openings 24-in the said roof 23, as shown in Fig. 2.

It will be understood that the exterior of the superstructure or mountings for the guns of the primary battery may be decorated in any suitable or approved manner. The superstructure B is also made of metal, and a pilot-house G, likewise constructed of metal, is mounted upon said superstructure, at the forward portion thereof, and said pilot-house is provided with a suitable roof 26. The pilot-house is held in position upon the superstructure B and the superstructure on the deck 11 of the hull A by means of a mast D, which mast is passed through suitable openings in the roofs of the pilot-house and superstructure, as shown. in Fig. 3, and is stepped in a suitable recess 29 made in the deck, as shown in the same figure. The mast D is in two sectionsa large lower or main section and anupper or top section 31, which section 31 is made to enter a recess in the upper portion of the main section of the mast. Said mast is also provided with a fighting-top 30, and this is held in position on the main portion of the mast by causing the topmast 3l to pass through the opening in the fighting-top before it passes into the recess of the main portion of the mast. The topmast 31 is provided with an opening 32, through which a cord 33 is passed, representing head and back stays, and said cord is suitably attached to the deck 11 at the bow and at the stern.

An opening 33 is made to extend from one side of the main section of the mast D to the other at a point near the fighting-top 30, and an endless cord 34 is passed through this opening 33. The bottom portions of the endless cord 3i are made to pass over projections 35 and 36, formed upon the hull about midships. In this manner side stays are produced. Flagstaffs 37 and 38 are detachably mounted in the deck at the bow and at the stern of the hull.

All of the various parts mounted on the hull may be dismantled and stored in the in terior of the hull when said hull is turned bottom upmost, as shown in Fig. 4, and the wheel-supports for the hull may likewise be disengaged therefrom and stored in the hull, as is also shown in Fig. 4..

Under this construction a toy is produced that maybe an exact representation of a manof-war, and all of the parts above the deck may' be safely stored away within the hull when the toy is not in use. The guns E, representing the main battery, are removably fitted in the ports b of the superstructure, and these ports are so located that the guns of the primary battery face in direction of the bow and the stern, while other guns or tend out from their mountings at midships. The character of the primary and secondary batteries may be changed according to the class of Vessel the toy is designed to represent, and, if necessary, the various parts of the vessel may be stationarily attached.

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. In a toy man-of-war, a metallic hollow hull open at its bottom and provided with marginal inwardlyextending flanges at its bottom and with guns and bearings therefor embossed on the said hull, wheeled supports removably secured to the hull through the medium of its flanges, an upper structure representing a primary battery removably mounted on the deck, anda removable mast, which mast when in position serves to hold the superstructure to the deck, all of the parts mounted below and above the said hull being capable of storage within the hull, as set forth.

2. A toy, having a body portion with inwardly-projecting flanges at the lower edges of its sides, and a wheeled member forming a truck and adapted to fit between the sides of the body portion and provided with slots in which the flanges arereceived, whereby to mount the body portion on the block.

3. A toy man-of-War, havinga hull, a deck secured therein, a turret or superstructure mounted on the deck, a roof placed on the turret or superstructure, and a funnel provided with a reduced lower end removably fitted in an orifice in the root of the turret or superstructure.

4. A toy man-of-war, comprising a hull, a deck fitted therein and havingarecessin the .top thereof, a superstructure placed loosely on the deck, and a mast extending downward through the superstructure and having its lower end stepped in the recess of the deck. 5. A toy man-of-War, comprising a hull, a superstructure removably seated on the hull, and a mast passed loosely through the superstructure and removably stepped on the hull, the mast serving to hold the superstructure in place.

MORTON E. CONVERSE. Witnesses:

E. KATHERINE ALLEN, FLORA A. FLAGG.

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